YouTube videos now available in HTML5: Good riddance, Flash

[quikah]

FYI: Firefox doesn't have h.264 support, that is why it won't work with Firefox

 

[Oil]

Doesnt support firefox, but it DOES support IE WTF

It supports IE with the Google Chrome frame. Firefox does run HTML5 videos but does not support the H.264 codec that Youtube is using

 

[Gooberlx2]

You can also right-click and notice a lack of the flash bullshit context menu.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

i do NOT like adobe

 

[Gooberlx2]

Ok ok, but where can you find a video in HTML5? My old 1080i uploads are still in Flash when I play on Chrome....

A recent 720p upload of mine is there and working. Looks like shit though, compared to flash. Obviously it's a work in progress, but hopefully that's something that'll improve sooner than later.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Do you need to be on windows?

Works for me w/ Chrome on Linux

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Doesnt support firefox, but it DOES support IE WTF

You mean Firefox doesn't support it, not the other way around. Firefox has no h.264 support, don't blame Youtube because Failfox won't support the most common video codec out there right now.

 

[Miramonti]

I'm using firefox 3.6 but am not getting html5 on youtube after choosing to 'beta test'.

 

[NFS4]

Same codec, same compression, should be the same quality.

HTML5 stuff looks very pixelated vs the regular Flash stuff for me.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

So I went to download chrome but when you click the link it just installs! how in the world did they do this and why does firefox allow this? This could be used for malicious purposes quite easily. No prompts no nothing, just clicked the link and it launched the installer! That's with noscript installed too! Anyone know how this works? I would have figured firefox would at least give some kind of warning about something like this.

It's called Oneclick, it's a MS technology and it's fairly secure. You clicked the install link, why shouldn't it just install? It's a cool technology.

 

[NFS4]

I'm using firefox 3.6 but am not getting html5 on youtube after choosing to 'beta test'.

...

FYI: Firefox doesn't have h.264 support, that is why it won't work with Firefox

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I'm using firefox 3.6 but am not getting html5 on youtube after choosing to 'beta test'.

Funny that.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

HTML5 stuff looks very pixelated vs the regular Flash stuff for me.

:hmm: maybe they're using a different source video for some reason.

 

[sandorski]

I'm amused that people worry about CPU usage anymore. Especially for something is inane as Flash Video.

 

[SunSamurai]

I never even heard of html 5 so I'm curious to check this out.

So I went to download chrome but when you click the link it just installs! how in the world did they do this and why does firefox allow this? This could be used for malicious purposes quite easily. No prompts no nothing, just clicked the link and it launched the installer! That's with noscript installed too! Anyone know how this works? I would have figured firefox would at least give some kind of warning about something like this.

LOL

Chrome steal'n yer ID brah

 

[SunSamurai]

I'm amused that people worry about CPU usage anymore. Especially for something is inane as Flash Video.

Yeah you'd think, right? Except Flash is such shit it can use 80% my dual core playing a game. They've had years to shape up and have done nothing or worse (exploits). Naturally people are going to want to move on to improved things.

I never got the "yer computer can handle it just fine even if its bloated shit" excuse.

 

[Red Squirrel]

It's called Oneclick, it's a MS technology and it's fairly secure. You clicked the install link, why shouldn't it just install? It's a cool technology.

But it's just a regular link, so a malicious site could easily trick someone into clicking on something that installs a virus or even just use a meta redirect. I would expect this from IE since it's been that way since day 1, but I would have figured firefox would at least warn or something. It warns for everything else, such as installing extensions.

 

[Red Squirrel]

LOL

Chrome steal'n yer ID brah

I'm not really worried about Google doing anything bad, but more the fact that it's possible to do this, since any malicious person could now use this method to easily slide a virus or other malicious code on your pc without even asking.

 

[Miramonti]

So Apple owns patents on the h.264 codec?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah you'd think, right? Except Flash is such shit it can use 80% my dual core playing a game. They've had years to shape up and have done nothing or worse (exploits). Naturally people are going to want to move on to improved things.

I never got the "yer computer can handle it just fine even if its bloated shit" excuse.

Yeah powerful computers are no excuse for bloated code. I find nowdays everything seems to be bloated. We are not really advancing when you think about it. A faster cpu comes out, but we NEED it just to keep up. So in the end nothing is really faster.

 

[sandorski]

Yeah you'd think, right? Except Flash is such shit it can use 80% my dual core playing a game. They've had years to shape up and have done nothing or worse (exploits). Naturally people are going to want to move on to improved things.

I never got the "yer computer can handle it just fine even if its bloated shit" excuse.

Kinda hard to quantify whether that's poor performance or not. Seems like a fixation to me, why care?

 

[FelixDeCat]

Divx Web Player > Flash > HTML5

Everyone knows this.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Yeah you'd think, right? Except Flash is such shit it can use 80% my dual core playing a game. They've had years to shape up and have done nothing or worse (exploits). Naturally people are going to want to move on to improved things.

I never got the "yer computer can handle it just fine even if its bloated shit" excuse.

It's hardly fair to blame Flash because some amateur writes shitty code. That's like blaming the C language because GTA IV runs like shit.

 

[matas]

meh can't install chrome or chrome frame because my computer is in auditmode? dumb. I followed the procedures to fix it but it did not help. using windows 7 64bit

 

[Sadaiyappan]

I'm amused that people worry about CPU usage anymore. Especially for something is inane as Flash Video.

Flash performance really really sucks in Linux.